page_title: Eleanor Chesnut
section_title: Mission work in China
hierarchical_section_title: Eleanor Chesnut / Mission work in China
caption_attribution_description: English: a building related to the 1905 Lienchow Incident in Kwangtung 粵語: 1905年連州教案相關建築物 中文: 1931年1月红七军伤病员治疗处，广东省文保单位，连州
context_page_description: Eleanor Chesnut, sometimes written as Eleanor Chestnut, was an American Christian medical missionary and translator who worked in China from 1894 until her murder in 1905.
context_section_description: Eleanor Chesnut worked briefly as a physician at the women's reformatory in Framingham, Massachusetts. She sailed from San Francisco for China as a missionary in 1894. She worked in Lianzhou, where she ran a women's hospital, traveled by horseback to hold clinics in small villages, and trained local women as nurses. She advocated for the building of schools and public health measures. She also translated books into the Lianzhou dialect, including the Gospel of Matthew and a nursing textbook. In a letter, she wrote, "I don't think we are in any danger, but if we are, we might as well die suddenly in God's work as by some long-drawn-out illness at home."
  During a furlough in the United States from 1902 to 1903, Chesnut gave lectures and raised funds for her work. "I do not feel that I am spiritual enough to be a missionary," she told a friend during this visit. In October 1905, she and three other Americans, and one child, were killed by a mob stirred to violence by her removal of a ceremonial structure.
caption: A building of the former mission hospitals still stands in Lianzhou.
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